necessarily mean it is real. you shouldn't assume it's real unless they tell you. without that assurance, you don't want to fall into the trap of seeing something in vr and saying this is how it actually happened. >> taking the headset off for now. we're out of time. "state of the union" with jake tapper starts right now. back to back to back exclusives. first up, jeb bush. livid over donald trump's comments about his brother. >> when you talk about george bush, say what you want, the world trade center came down during his time. >> jeb's response next. then one on one with hillary clinton. weighing in on bernie, benghazi, and 40 years with bill. >> i'm not going to sit here and tell you it's been a path filled with rose blossoms.

>> is it decision time for joe biden. then another exclusive. mitt romney, the would be president weighing in on his party's chances to win the white house. >> i will vote for the nominee of the republican party and i don't believe that's going to be donald trump. hello i'm jake tapper in washington, d.c., where the state of our union is exclusive. today, we're bringing you three blockbuster interviews. bush, clinton and romney. first up, jeb bush, once seen as the inevitable gop nominee now stuck in the middle of the pack. trailing behind donald trump. this week, trump got personal saying this about bush's brother. >> when you talk about george bush, say what you want, the world trade center came down during his time.

if you look -- >> hold on. you can't blame george bush for that. >> he was president, okay? don't blame him, don't blame him, but he was president. the world trade center came down during his reign. >> that comment sparked a twitter war with jeb bush calling trump pathetic. trump just minutes ago responded saying jeb bush should stop trying to defend his brother and focus on his own shortcomings and how to fix them. now here with us in the flesh is former florida governor jeb bush. thanks for being with us. >> thanks, jake. >> what are you objecting to about mr. trump's remarks about 9/11 and your brother? >> look, my brother responded to a crisis and he did it as you would hope a president would do. he united the country. he organized our country and kept us safe. there's no denying that. the great majority of americans believe that. i don't know why he keeps bringing this up. it doesn't show he's a serious person as it relates to being

commander in chief and being the architect of a foreign policy. mr. trump talks about things that -- as though he's still on "apprentice." literally talking about syria, isis should take out assad and russia should take out isis as though it's some kind of board game. this is just another example of the lack of seriousness. this is a serious time. we're under grave threats again and i think we need a president with a steady hand. >> do you think it's at all possible that your loyalty to your brother, while very admirable on a personal level, might be in some ways a political or policy liability blinding you to mistakes he made? >> no. i mean, so next week mr. trump is probably going to say that fdr was around when japan attacked pearl harbor. it's what you do after that matters. that's the sign of leadership. it's not the -- does anybody actually blame my brother for the attacks on 9/11?

if they do, they're totally margin alized in our society. you don't have to have your last name be bush to understand that. it calls into question mr. trump's credibility as a commander in chief and architect of the next generation foreign policy. which we desperately need in this country right now. >> obviously al qaeda was responsible for the terrorist attack of 9/11. but how do you respond to critics who ask if your brother and his administration bear no responsibility at all, how do you make the jump that president obama and secretary clinton are responsible for what happened at benghazi? >> well, the question on benghazi which hopefully we'll now finally get the truth to, was the place secure? they had a responsibility department of state to have proper security. there were calls for security. it looks like they didn't get it.

and how was the response in the aftermath of the attack? was there a chance that these four american lives could have been saved? that's what the investigation is about. it's not a political issue. it's not about the broad policy issue. were we doing the job of protecting our embassies and consulates during the period, hours after the attacks started, could they have been saved. >> that's kind of proving the point of the critics i was just asking about. because you don't want to have your brother bear responsibility for 9/11 and i understand that argument and al qaeda's responsible. but why were the terrorists not the ones responsible for libya? >> they are, of course they are. if the ambassador was asking for additional security and didn't get it, that's a proper point. if it's proven that the security was adequate, fine, we'll move on. >> you're making some very strong statements about donald trump in this interview this morning. you just put out a new web ad in

fact attacking trump saying he's not serious. let's play a clip from that. ♪ >> the ad goes on to highlight or low light, depending on your point of view, trump's moments in which i'm sure you would argue he is not being serious. let me re-ask you what i asked at the last debate. do you feel comfortable with donald trump's hand on the nation's nuclear codes? your ad seems to be stating very clearly that you do not. you invoke the number of nuclear weapons the united states has. >> i have grave doubts, to be honest with you. and it's only because of the things he says. it looks as though he's not taking the possibility of being president of the united states really seriously.

for him, it looks as though he's an actor playing the role of the candidate for president, not boning up on the issues and responsibilities of what it is to be a president. it gives me great concern for sure and a lot of other people will as well. >> why do you think he continues to do so well with republican voters? >> look, he's a phenomenal personality, for sure. he's capturing people's deep anger and angst about washington, d.c., for sure. but he's not going to be able to solve these problems. he's mirroring people's anger and he does it very effectively. i think we're going to have a nominee that will unite the party and win the presidency. but when people begin to think about who's going to be president of the united states, who has the judgment and the seriousness and ideas to lead us in a different direction. i think his support will wayne.

>> what makes you think he's not going to get the nomination? as a political reporter, i don't see any evidence that he's not going to get the nomination. >> we'll see, jake. i mean, this time four years ago, this time eight years ago, the conditions were very different and the nominee emerged in the january and february time frame. i expect that that will be the case again this time. >> after campaign fundraising numbers were put out this week. tim miller had an arch comment about senator marco rubio, lying about budgets, guess marco picked up something in the senate. them's fighting words governor. >> i'm not into all that. he kind of misled people about his fundraising results. that's fine. look, the process part of this is not my motivation to run. i believe we can grow our economy and on foreign policy, we've done the exact same thing. each and every day i campaign, i focus on those things. >> you probably watched some of

the democratic debate the other night. you want to be the republican that takes on the nominee. still likely to be hillary clinton according to polls. how did she look to you? did she look tough? did she look beatable? >> she looked beatable because of the idea she embraced. she's a smart person, no doubt about that. every chance she had to lay out a different approach than the one we're on now, she actually doubled or tripled down on it. more taxes, more regulation, more creating barriers on people's ability to rise up. if i'm elected the republican nominee, it will be a stark contrast of do you believe in the country's future with a hopeful optimistic message that gives people capacity to achieve success or should we manage the decline. and i'm excited about that. >> donald trump just pushed cnbc to commit to limiting the next republican debate to two hours.

now, this week in addition to releasing campaign finance records, you also released your medical records with indications that you are in good shape, you have a quote, capacity to complete high intensity physical activity. so it sounds like you would be at least physically up for three hours of debate or are you good with two? >> i can do three, i can do two. whatever they decide, i'm ready to go. i can do four if forced to. mentally that might be too much. >> best of luck at that debate. we hope to you see on the campaign trail. governor jeb bush thanks for joining us. >> thanks, jake. there's even more from our jeb bush interview. you can find it on cnn.com/sotu. check it out. vice president biden's 2016 announcement could come at any minute. is hillary clinton's campaign trying to force his hand? stay with us. if i want to go up...

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granite state. >> so congratulations on this new poll number in new hampshire showing that you're pulling ahead of bernie sanders in a state where you've lagged a little. he's from neighboring vermont. the reviews obviously very positive. i'm wondering what the pundit in chief, your husband, he was in vegas, what he said to you after the debate. >> he thought i did a really good job. i think that's the highest praise that i can ever get because there's nobody whose opinions on these things of things i respect more. it was great to have him with me. we had just celebrated our 40th anniversary on sunday last. the fact that he could come and keep me company and keep my spirits up and drill me on some of the things he thought were important meant a great deal to me. >> as long as you bring it up, 40 years of marriage. >> 40 years, jake.

40 years. >> what do you know about him now that you didn't know 40 years ago? >> i am so grateful that -- you know, we have basically had the opportunity to grow in so many different ways. i'm not going to sit here and tell you or the viewers that it's been a path filled with rose blossoms. it's been challenging. but overall looking back at those 40 years, i am so grateful that after he asked me twice, i finally said yes and have spent these years with him. >> you said at the debate you're a progressive that likes to get things done. sanders has plans that might be fairly called more ambitious than yours in terms of expanding medicare for everybody, free college tuition and across the board expansion of social security benefits. do you think he's being

unrealistic when he makes these proposals in terms of what can actually get passed through congress? >> look, i have the highest regard for senator sanders. and i think he is raising issues that the electorate, not just democrats, everybody needs to be thinking about. he has put forward his plans with passionate intensity and i have put forth mine. and just think of the difference between us and the republicans who have put forth nothing but the same old out of touch, out of date policies. >> why are his plans more ambitious? >> he has a very ambitious and expansive view about what he thinks should be done with respect to free college and other of the policies that we both are trying to tackle. i believe that my approach, for example on college. i call it the new college compact because i think everybody should have some skin in the game including students

who i say should work for part of their education. maybe it's because i did and my husband did, but i think it's something that you want young people to feel really committed to. it's a difference in approach. we will have an opportunity to really dig down. i'm hoping that whatever network hosts them, whoever the moderator happens to be, that they will really ask us to explain and contrast. but it's a policy difference. i mean, you could see on that stage in las vegas how we are maybe approaching these problems with different solutions, but we're both seeing the pressures that american families are under and the challenges that they're facing that we want to try to address. and the differences between us is nothing like the differences we all have with the republicans. and i want the american people to be part of the debate and to hear senator sanders' perspective.

so hear mine to make up their mind. and then to remember that we're not peddling the same old failed policies of trickle-down economics and let the corporations do what they want and cut taxes on the wealthy which is the answer to everything that the republicans put forth. >> you've said in the past that vice president biden should take his time, whatever he needs, to make his decision about running. your campaign is now signaling that it might be time for him to make a decision. your top advisor said this week, quote, i think the time has come for a decision. has the time come? >> well, that's up to vice president biden. obviously -- >> that's your top advisor. >> i think what john was saying is that whether you are encouraging or not, there does come a point where a decision has to be made. but certainly i'm not in any way suggesting or recommending that the vice president accept any timetable other than the one that is clicking inside of him. he has to make this decision. >> at the debate you were asked

to name the enemy of which you were the most proud. among your answers were republicans. that's about half the country, republicans. >> well, it was a little tongue in cheek. but it's clear i think to anybody who's been around for a while that, you know, they do seem to enjoy coming after me. but then once i'm in office, they have always worked with me. and i expect it will be exactly the same. it's funny to me, when i was secretary of state, i had very high support and approval from republicans, not just the republican voters, but republican office holders. as soon as i got into this presidential election, all of that collapsed again. i'm just reminding people that you can be an adversary in politics but then you do have to come together and figure out how to solve problems. >> you're talking a lot about further restrictions on gun ownership, gun control. i remember in 2008 during the primaries you were positioning yourself to the right of

president obama then senator obama on this issue. you talked about respecting how guns are part of the culture, sending out a mailer criticizing then senator obama for pushing tougher gun laws. now you're coming at bernie sanders on this issue from the left. did something change? or is it just about who you're running against? >> not at all. in fact, i would characterize what happened in '08 very differently. i spent a lot of years in arkansas. i have a lot of experience with and respect for people who own guns, collect guns, use them for hunting, use them for target shooting. i respect the second amendment. i was taught to shoot by my dad when i was a girl. i've gone hunting. i get that. i don't in any way want to denigrate those responsible gun owners who have rights under the second amendment and our laws. but i believe we have gone way too far in being intimidated by the nra. and i have said repeatedly that

the majority of americans and the majority of gun owners support universal background checks. and for the nra to take these absolute positions on behalf of the most extreme of their members and carrying water for gun manufacturers and dealers is just wrong. so i don't think i have moved at all. i do have more experience perhaps than some in living in places. i represented upstate new york which is a big vast rural area with small towns and cities. so i get why people who are part of gun ownership are very proud of that. but what i don't get is why we can't have sensible gun safety measures to keep guns out of the hands of fugitives and stalkers and felons and people with serious mental illness, the people who should not have them in the first place. >> the new yorker this week published a memo about how to defeat you by then senator obama's campaign, including your

current pollster. who i don't know has talked to you about this. >> i haven't seen it. >> among other things, the memo said that you are driven by politics, not conviction and you're constantly shifting, dodging, and changing positions to satisfy the politics of the moment. that's kind of the same wrap on you from your opponents now. do you reject it outright or see why some people feel that way? >> i can see why people want to come up with ways of attacking me. that seems to be part of the landscape. it happened when i ran for the senate, happened again when i ran for president. but i have been the same person. i have the same values, i have the same principles. there isn't anybody that i know in politics who hasn't changed a position from time to time except some republicans who are impervious to evidence that changed circumstances. so i don't pay much mind to that. i'm sure we had something pointing out things that we tried to go after. that's politics. i get it.

i think anyone who looks at what i have fought for and stood for my entire adult life on behalf of kids and families and women and the middle class and economic opportunity knows that i have been very steady. and yes, do i look at evidence and try to figure out what's the best way forward to achieve the goals that i hold? yes, i do do that. >> let's talk about donald trump. his daughter gave an interview to cnn. she said her father is not a politician and is changing the dialogue and disrupting the process in a very positive way. do you agree? >> first of all, i have a really high regard for her. she is a wonderful young woman. >> and a friend of chelsea's. >> yes, she is. i think what she said is borne out by what's been happening. he has brought his oversized personality and his reality television experience to the highest level of american politics. and seems to be getting a very

positive response among a large part of the republican electorate. so that's up to the republicans. they have to decide if that will be their nominee or not. i have called him out on some of the things he has said which i thought were uncalled for, some of the insults and attacks he's made on immigrants, on women. it's just unacceptable, let be said about the president. i'm going to continue to criticize him for going beyond the bounds of what i think is appropriate for anybody running for president. >> stay with us. we are going to take a very quick break. coming up, what clinton is expecting this week with the congressional committee she calls a partisan sham. >> i will do my best to answer their questions. but i don't really know what their on jek sieve is right now. ♪ ♪ (charge music)

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hillary clinton heads to congress thursday to appear before the committee investigating the benghazi attacks. i asked her about it in our exclusive interview. >> you're scheduled to testify before the benghazi committee in the house of representatives in a few days. what are you expecting and how are you preparing? >> i really don't know what to expect. i think it's pretty clear that whatever they might have thought they were doing, they ended up becoming a partisan arm of the republican national committee with an overwhelming focus on trying to, as they admitted, drive down my poll numbers. i've already testified about benghazi. i testified to the best of my ability before the senate and the house. i don't know that i have very much to add. this is after all, the eighth investigation. other committees of the

congress, standing committees with very experienced members and staff have all looked into this and basically just rejected the conspiracy theories that are still floating out there in some circles. so i really don't know. i will do my best to answer their questions. but i don't really know what their objective is right now. >> i covered the benghazi situation, the benghazi tragedy when i was a white house correspondent. and there's something i just never really understood. and that is why did the state department deny all those security requests. the former regional security officer in libya recalled in testimony asking for 12 new security agents and he was talking to a regional director who said he was asking for the sun, the moon and the stars. it got so bad that he was fighting members of the state department. it was like having the taliban on the inside of the building.

>> well, the accountability review board that i commissioned went into this in great detail. and they made some recommendations -- >> the question is why, though. why didn't the security requests -- why weren't they made? >> well, that was left to the security professionals, jake. in the reports, the ones that have been done that were non-political and independent in their efforts to try to sort this through, i think concluded that the security professionals in the state department had to look worldwide and had to make some tough decisions. that's why we don't inject politics into it. that has to be what the professionals are deciding. and there were a lot of different opinions and that's understandable. there's tough decisions that have to be made. so i can only point you to the very thorough review that several committees have done starting with the accountability review board, that have gone

into this in great detail and made recommendations about how we can better make those assessments. not at the political level because i don't think a secretary of state who may be there for four years or two years should be reaching down in and making those decisions, but we have to do a better job with the professionals charged with making the decisions so that the information can all be evaluated and the resources that are needed can be asked for and deployed to the best extent. >> i know bernie sanders said that quote, the american people are sick and tired of hearing about your damn e-mails, but there are a lot of people who are not, including fbi officials looking into whether national security was compromised because of this server. this is something else that is very confusing to me. with all your experience, why wouldn't you anticipate that over the course of four years, handling very sensitive diplomatic negotiations, overseeing military interventions and surveillance, why wouldn't you anticipate

something classified whether about korea, iran or drones, or an informant for the cia, that it wouldn't be e-mailed to you? and why wouldn't you consider that having it on your personal account with some server in colorado might be a potential risk? >> well, first of all, nothing, and i will underscore, nothing that i was sent or that i sent was marked classified. we have a system in our government, in our state department. it was there before i came in. >> right. >> it has continued after i left, where there are decisions made about what is classified information in realtime. and nothing was marked classified. >> the inspector general of the intelligence community said that some of this stuff contained classified information when it was generated whether or not it was marked classified. >> well, that is just a very strong difference of opinion. the state department does not

agree with that. it is almost an impossible standard. we had two separate systems. we had the unclassified system. so anybody who was on the unclassified system with the state department would only be able to tell if something were classified if it were marked classified. we dealt with classified information on a totally different system. nobody had access to that from an unclassified device. so i think a lot of this is being a public display of the very common arguments that go on between different agencies and our government. this happens every time there is a freedom of information act request. if something's going to be made public that was not classified at the time, maybe something has happened years later that there's a case and so now it's sensitive information. that's what's going on here. different agencies are weighing in and saying, yeah, it wasn't classified, but we think that there is something in it that

now we're going to say is sensitive. at the time there was nothing marked classified. and that is the fact. that hasn't changed -- >> and you said it was allowed too. >> yes it was. >> who allowed it? >> it was allowed under the rules of the state department. again -- >> so nobody signed off on it? >> no. no, it was allowed. one of my predecessors did the same thing. others in our government have done the same thing at very high levels because the rules did change after i left the state department. but at the time and prior years, the rules allowed it. coming up next, mitt romney reacts to our interview with hillary clinton. you will not want to miss it. stay with us.

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welcome back. mitt romney has kept a relatively low profile since 2012. he's here now to share the state of the union as he sees it. >> former massachusetts governor and 2012 republican presidential nominee, mitt romney, joins us now. governor romney, thanks so much for joining us. >> thanks, jake. good to be with you. >> so you just heard hillary clinton. she's testifying in the next few days to the benghazi committee. she says republicans in congress have quote admitted that the panel's overwhelming focus is to drive down her poll numbers. is she right? >> well, there are two parts of the benghazi hearing, and i think she's been trying to conflate the two. one of course was what her role was in not providing security in benghazi to protect our ambassador. the committee wants to make sure those mistakes are not made

again. then something that came from the benghazi hearings. but is not really directly related to benghazi itself. that is the fact that unlike any other former secretary of state, she had her own e-mail server. she was conducting business on that e-mail server. it's very possible that classified information was breached as a result of her misjudgment. >> at tuesday's debate, hillary clinton said that the u.s. has to stand up to putin's bullying. take a listen. >> there's no doubt that when putin came back in and said he was going to be president, that did change the relationship. we have to stand up to his bullying and specifically in syria. >> i presume that statement by her is closer to you're views than those of donald trump who has basically said let russia take care of isis and syria. >> well, let's step back and look at what she said. the idea that somehow putin was not in charge during the time that medvedev was the president,

is obviously absurd. putin was in charge. hillary clinton was completely misguided and uninformed with regards to the intentions of putin, medvedev and russia. and her great mistake was characterized by her pressing that reset button with a great big smile on it that somehow she thought russia was going to be our friend and ally. her mistaken perspective on foreign policy has led to the fact that there's no place in the world i can think of where american interests have been bettered by virtue of hillary clinton having served as secretary of state. that's quite an indictment. whether it's syria, ukraine, yemen, libya, israel, the south china sea. look around the world, that record of the secretary of state i think will become the focal point of the debates in 2016 when a republican nominee goes after that record. >> well, that nominee, as of right now, looks like it will be donald trump, even though i know you and your wife have said it

won't be. i haven't seen any evidence to the contrary. are you afraid that donald trump will not be able to beat hillary clinton? >> well, i don't think it's likely that donald trump will be the nominee, but it's obviously too early to tell. at this stage, numbers go up and down, candidates have bursts of support. donald trump has had a lot of support for a long time. so i think a lot of fothpected. so i can't predict who it's going to be, but i can predict it will be a nominee that will be a stronger one both on the basis of character and track record than hillary clinton. >> you would vote for donald trump over hillary clinton, though? >> i would vote for the nominee of the republican party and i don't believe that's going to be donald trump. >> i know you haven't endorsed. but there are a lot of republican and democratic strategists who think that rubio at the end of the day is the strongest candidate to take on hillary clinton in terms of both

his raw political talent and demographic appeal, plus, of course the generational appeal. do you agree? >> well, i think there's some very positive attributes associated with a number of people that are running for president. marco has very compelling attributes. but look at chris christie. this is a guy who's taken on some really tough situations in new jersey. he's a great debater. he speaking his mind clearly and forcefully. jeb bush as well has an extraordinary record as the governor of florida, an education governor, a guy who's made a difference there and across the country. he could be a very strong nominee. john kasich, has done a terrific job in the state of ohio. rebuilt the economy there. you've got four right there that are amazing individuals and of course carly fiorina has risen dramatically. we got some good folks. >> what about ben carson? >> excuse me. ben carson i don't know as well.

but he's obviously a very gentle and sweet soul who speaks his mind. i think people are very drawn to somebody who is so willing to express his views as he is. >> this week, you said that you'd like to see your former running mate, congressman paul ryan of wisconsin, to one day be president. does that ambition that you have for him make you think that speaker of the house would not be a good job for him to take? >> well, you know, it's really a tough decision for him. and i'm sure a personal decision. from my own standpoint, i see paul as one of the people coming along that has the potential to lead our country. and if he became speaker of the house in the near term, that's also a crucial role. we need paul in two spots at once. you know, there haven't been a

lot of people that have gone on from speaker to the white house. so i'd hate to lose him as a potential contender down the road for the white house. he's a man of such talent, integrity and character that he's a real resource for the country. so whether it's now for the speakership or whether instead we see him hold on and become potentially a candidate for president. i don't know. that's his decision. i'm just glad to know him and know that we have him in our quiver. >> sounds like you're coming out in favor of cloning paul ryan of whatever the biomethical ethics of that are. >> this is a guy who has laid out what he believes. he's a policy wonk. he's a advocate of the policies of jack kemp and people respect who he is. >> there are people in the freedom caucus who think he's

too liberal. that's where this debate and congress right now has gone. people thinking paul ryan is too much of a squish. >> well, you know, the challenge in our party is not so much that people have differing views on issues as much as people have differing views about how to get those issues implemented. there are some in our party who think the best approach is throwing bombs. the problem with bomb-throwing, most of the bombs have landed on our own team. that doesn't help. others think the best approach is to see if we can't find common ground with the people across the aisle. that's been the approach in our party. you have paul ryan who is willing to work with democrats. i think that's a productive think. i contrast that with hillary clinton who the other night said republicans are her enemies. gosh, that's not the approach for a president in the white house. i thought he might have talked about isis being her enemies or people chanting death to america. instead, she said republicans are her enemies. paul ryan doesn't think that way. i think we need leadership in washington that's willing to

work across the aisle. >> your wife was on my show "the lead." recently promoting her book. she agreed with your former strategist who also told me if you were running for president right now as you were thinking about doing but ultimately decided not to do, you would be winning. what do you think? do you agree with your wife? do you agree with stu stevens? >> i can't imagine running right now and i'm glad i'm not in this race. a lot of people there are battling their way ahead. i think the american people wanted to see a new face. that's a good thing. and i -- i can't imagine how i'd be doing on that particular stage, but i salute them for their willingness to get in and fight for the things they believe in. >> governor mitt romney, thanks so much for joining us. >> thanks, jake. good to be with you. how much is a handshake worth? it's this week's "state of the cartoonion" next.

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